We have 1,300+ ASP.NET web pages which we need to generate resources for. Currently the only tool that we have found to use is the one built-in to Visual Studio (i.e. switch to design view and click on the "Generate Local Resource" button under the "Tools" menu) but that process takes a long time to load and needs to be done on each page individually. We have been able to automate that process using a Visual Studio macro, but it still takes hours/days to complete and is prone to failure due to pop-up messages in Visual Studio which can stop the process.

We would like a tool that can run outside Visual Studio so that there is less overhead and will be able to process the files much faster by parsing the text as opposed to the designer. We intend to run the tool on a regular basis (weekly or even nightly) in order to catch any changes made by a developer during the day. Therefore, the tool should be able to be run in the background (possibly as a scheduled task, but more likely a...